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Mar 28, 2018
Akilah
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This book is beautifully written and narrated (audiobook), but I'm over an hour in and bored out of my mind.
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Ugh. If I hadn't agreed to read this as a candidate for a high school book list I would have put it down a long time ago. It dragged on, and I kept putting it down and coming back to it a few weeks later. It was shockingly uninteresting for a "mystery" novel.
I thought the premise was interesting: Daniel's father takes him to the cemetery of forgotten books when he is ten years old and tells him to pick one to look out for. The book he chooses, Shadow of the Wind, is one of a kind; all other copi ...more
I thought the premise was interesting: Daniel's father takes him to the cemetery of forgotten books when he is ten years old and tells him to pick one to look out for. The book he chooses, Shadow of the Wind, is one of a kind; all other copi ...more
Easily distracted, supremely susceptible to red herrings . . . . I'm not a good reader of thrillers. And, despite its book-based plot and complete rootedness in place, this one was take-it-or-leave-it until the final third, when it got really, really good.
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I've never really read something that I considered a mystery cause I didn't consider it my genre, but this book is definitely a mystery and I really liked it. I loved the way the book flowed through the mystery. I love how a book discovered in a mysterious library called "the cemetery of forgotten books" can impact the main character Daniel's life so much so that from pre-teen to twenty year old he is engrossed in the mystery of finding the man behind the book, the man that wrote the book that t
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This was a frustrating read, mainly because I loved the book at first. It was captivating both plot and language-wise and very "meta" in its discussion of book-collecting. THEN...the ending just fell apart and disintegrated into hurried, easy-way-out summary by a dead character. Come on now...disappointing.
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The writing was somewhat cliched or predictable at times but the plot was engrossing and the characters were memorable.
Really beautifully written (and translated). I was completely engaged in the world and characters of this story, and alternately laughed, had chills, jumped from fright, and wanted to write down quotes. Loved it.
I loved this book, I stumbled on it while reading authors starting with Z at the library. I did not know if I would like a translation but YES! When I read about the Cemetary of Lost Books, I was hooked.
What a story! beautifully told - love it when the setting (Barcelona and Paris) is part of the story.
Jul 09, 2007
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